Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Production trailers

Boats on the winter ocean where crawlers are held between floors while a holographic studio is projected around them for interviews. Menus go dark, the sets are bigger than the rooms, and nothing on the couch is quite real except the cat treats.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 12 — No matter what
• Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
• Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
• Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
• Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
• Chapter 31 — The juvenile quickdraw
• Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
• Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
• Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
• Chapter 42 — Warrants
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube

Arc

Odette's, in a storm (ch. 17); a green room where a contract is signed minutes before air (ch. 18); an empty seat between Donut and Odette (ch. 19); a minute without sniffers during the hand-off (ch. 20). Gone after an escape attempt, replaced by a Valtay ship (ch. 30).